Using ABI/INFORM Complete

• Overview
• Introduction

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• Basic Search
• Advanced Search
1. Basics
2. Browsing functionality
3. Entering Search Terms
4. Entering Search Terms (continued)
5. More Search Options
• Topic Guide
• Publication Search
• Marked List

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• Printing and Emailing

Advanced Search

Basics

1. Select the ABI/INFORM Complete database. Make sure that you choose the correct database, as the databases are generally sorted alphabetically.

2. If you click on the button at the very top after entering ABI/INFORM Complete, this will take you to the advanced search function which is a bit more robust than the basic search. Notice the orange tab in the figure below.


Figure 4

3. The database is already chosen for you--"Business-ABI/INFORM Complete". The database(s) that you have selected is listed immediately under the colored tabs on this page (Figure 4, 3a). If you opt to click on the link "Select multiple databases" (Figure 4, 3b), the page will take you back to your earlier location, where you can select multiple databases using checkboxes.

4. There is an alphabetical topic list that can be browsed (Figure 4, 4a). This topic list contains both companies and subjects. You can "Add to Search" the companies and/or subjects that you wish by selecting the button.

5. Choose a "date range:" anything from the last 7 days, last 30 days, last 3 months, last 12 months to a specific date.

6. You can limit your results to "Full text articles only"(Figure 4, 6a) and/or "Scholarly journals, including peer reviewed" (Figure 4, 6b). Here is what PROQUEST has to say about the definition of these two terms.
   
   A publication is considered to be SCHOLARLY if it is authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic, the printed format isn't usually a glossy magazine, and it is published by a recognized society with academic goals and missions.
   
   A publication is considered to be PEER REVIEWED if its articles go through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers, people who are experts in the same subject area. Most, but not all scholarly publications, are peer reviewed. Some trade publications are actually peer reviewed, but ProQuest does not consider them when filtering on peer reviewed. This is because getting results from trade publications instead of academic journals can be frustrating to researchers. Instead, ProQuest excludes these peer reviewed trade publications and only considers publications that are scholarly in terms of content, intent, and audience.

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